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René Magritte
René François Ghislain Magritte was a Belgian surrealist artist known for his depictions of familiar objects in unfamiliar, unexpected contexts, which often provoked questions about the nature and boundaries of reality and representation. His imagery has influenced pop art, minimalist art, and conceptual art.
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culture · Belgian painter (1898–1967) · painter · illustrator · draftsperson · photographer · printmaker · filmmaker · sculptor · architectural drafter · collagist · graphic artist · also René Magritte, Magritte, Magritte, René
Born 21 November 1898 · Died 15 August 1967 · Q7836
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2026· 2 entries
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2024· 5 entries
Indiatimes: Rene Magritte's surreal painting titled 'Empire of Light' breaks auction records, sells for ...
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CNN: René Magritte’s ‘L’empire des lumières’ sells for record $121 million
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Smithsonian Magazine: See How René Magritte’s Dreamlike Paintings Evolved Over Four Decades at a New Exhibition in Australia
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Outlookindia: René Magritte's Masterpiece "L’ami intime" Poised To Fetch £50 Million At Auction
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The Telegraph: A painting by René Magritte may fetch $64 million at an auction marking a century of surrealism
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2023· 1 entry
Smithsonian Magazine: A Mysterious Portrait Was Discovered Beneath a René Magritte Painting
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2022· 1 entry
Australian Broadcasting Corporation: René Magritte's L'Empire des Lumieres, Empire of Light, breaks artist's auction record
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2019· 1 entry
Patricia Allmer demonstrated the influence of fairground attractions on Magritte's art, from carousels and circuses to panoramas and stage magic
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2018· 1 entry
Hyperallergic: René Magritte’s Bad Paintings
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2015· 3 entries
Artnet: The Surreal Legacy of Adman-Turned-Fine-Artist René Magritte
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Artnet: 7 Quotes from René Magritte on his Birthday
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The band Punch Brothers used The Lovers as the cover of its album The Phosphorescent Blues
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2005· 1 entry
Was ninth in the Walloon version of De Grootste Belg (The Greatest Belgian); in the Flemish version he was 18th
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1967· 1 entry
Died 1967-08-15.
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1965· 1 entry
The Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1992, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art again in 2013
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1946· 1 entry
Renouncing the violence and pessimism of his earlier work, he joined several other Belgian artists in signing the manifesto Surrealism in Full Sunlight
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1940· 1 entry
Magritte and his wife did not reconcile until 1940.
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1936· 2 entries
Magritte had his first solo exhibition in the United States, at the Julien Levy Gallery in New York, followed by an exposition at the London Gallery in 1938
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Magritte's marriage became troubled when he met a young performance artist, Sheila Legge, and began an affair with her
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1934· 1 entry
Suzanne Spaak's sister, Alice Lorge, purchased Magritte's La Magie Noire
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1932· 1 entry
Magritte joined the Communist Party, which he periodically left and rejoined for several years
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1929· 1 entry
Was put under contract at Goemans Gallery in Paris along with Jean Arp and Yves Tanguy
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1927· 1 entry
Magritte held his first solo exhibition, in Brussels
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1926· 1 entry
Magritte produced his first surreal painting, The Lost Jockey (Le jockey perdu)
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1922· 2 entries
The poet Marcel Lecomte showed Magritte a reproduction of Giorgio de Chirico's The Song of Love (painted in 1914)
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Married Georgette Berger, whom he had met as a child in 1913
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1920· 2 entries
They had first met when she was 13 and he was 15; they met again in Brussels in 1920 and Georgette, who had also studied art, became Magritte's model, muse, and wife.
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And Georgette, who had also studied art, became Magritte's model, muse, and wife
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1898· 1 entry
Born 1898-11-21.
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